Songs of Ourselves

Informationen zum Autor Joan Shelley Rubin is Professor of History at the University of Rochester. Klappentext Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced American readers lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet s words. By blurring boundaries between high and popular poetry, and between modern and traditional, Rubin reveals a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves. Zusammenfassung Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced American readersâ™ lives and helped them to find meaning in a poetâ™s words. By blurring boundaries between âhigh❠and âpopular❠poetry, and between modern and traditional, Rubin reveals a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.

Autorentext

Joan Shelley Rubin is Professor of History at the University of Rochester.

Klappentext

Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced American readers lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet s words. By blurring boundaries between high and popular poetry, and between modern and traditional, Rubin reveals a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.

Inhalt

Introduction Part I. The Poet in American Culture *1. Seer and Sage *2. Amateur and Professional *3. Absence and Presence *4. Sophisticate and Innocent *5. Celebrity and Cipher *6. Alien and Intimate Part II. Poetry in Place and Practice *7. Listen, My Children: Modes of Poetry Reading in American Schools *8. I Am an American: Poetry and Civic Ideals *9. Grow Old Along with Me: Poetry and Emotions among Family and Friends *10. God's in His Heaven: Religious Uses of Verse *11. Lovely as a Tree: Reading and Seeing Out-of-Doors *Coda: "Favorite Poems" and Contemporary Readers *Notes *Index